Covering Canadian Telecom, Broadcasting and Digital Media

A niche news service produced for the telecom, broadcasting and digital sectors. The Wire Report’s editorial team stays on top of a rapidly shifting communications landscape to report on key political, regulatory and business developments for more than 4,000 readers in these sectors.

Reporting on Canadian Telecom, Broadcasting and Digital Media

A niche news service produced for the telecom, broadcasting and new media sectors and associated regulatory bodies. The Wire Report’s editorial team stays on top of a rapidly shifting communications landscape to report on key regulatory and business developments for more than 4,000 readers in these sectors.

Our Coverage

The Wire Report is independently owned by Hill Times Publishing Inc. and run by an experienced, independent editorial team. We have no positions to advance, no biases to nurture. As Canada's media and telecom industry faces more consolidation and vertical integration, independence is critical to producing news about these sectors that you can depend on.

Companies

NEWS

Telus leads in end-of-summer lobbying activity

Telus Corp. was far and away the busiest industry stakeholder when it came to reportable lobbying activity with the federal government last month, filing a total of 16 communication reports in August — twice as many as lobbying runner-up Rogers Communications Inc.
Twelve of Telus’ reports were...

BRIEFS

Amazon adds Alexa to music app

Amazon.com Inc. is making its voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant Alexa available on its Amazon Music app in some countries.
The integration means “customers can ask for music based on genre, decade, mood, tempo, activity or even the lyrics if they can’t remember the name of a song,”...

PEOPLE

May-Cuconato on Phoenix file

Former CRTC secretary-general Danielle May-Cuconato is on the team working to help fix the problems plaguing the government’s employee pay system.
May-Cuconato joined Public Services and Procurement Canada on Sept. 7 as assistant deputy minister of the Pay Stabilization Project, according to an email...

PEOPLE

Michel Bissonnette named as Lalande’s replacement

CBC/Radio-Canada announced that Michel Bissonnette would be taking over as executive vice-president of French services at Radio-Canada. Bissonnette will succeed Louis Lalande, who announced his upcoming retirement in June.

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